Perceptual completion in newborn human infants

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1810-1821

  Valenza, Eloisa ^a,b   Leo, Irene ^a   Gava, Lucia ^a   Simion, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Psicologia Dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750928811     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00975.x     Document Type: Article

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